Discard Trope: Harem stop-point

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Harem stop-point

"Oops, sorry ladies. gotta keep going"

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A hero is in a chase-scene going through an urban environment. he runs by a marketplace, jumps from rooftops and crash-lands in...a harem
suffering a moment of confusion and lust, he ettempts to maintain his momentum and continue the chase uninterrupted.

Examples:
The Scorpion King (2002)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
John Carter (2012)

In The Blues Brothers the Brothers sneak into the Palace Hotel Ball Room via the Ladies' Room window.

The climactic Chase Scene in Under The Rainbow (a comedy very loosely based on the filming of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)goes through a women's changing room. One of the little people sticks around rather than continuing the chase.

Played straight and subverted a few times in the Gor novels. The harem girls are usually slaves, and although a master may be possessive of his possessions, it's generally acknowledged that any free man can use a slave for his pleasure at any time her master isn't putting her to use (in either a sexual or non-sexual way).

In Turkish, harem is generally used to refer to the people (i.e. the various concubines and wives of a monarch, the queen mother, and their attendants). Considering there isn't a single chamber where they were housed in the palaces, and the chambers each have their own names, the name "harem" is only used to refer to such places while they are actually being occupied by a harem.

((At least that's how we use it in modern speech. I don't know how it was commonly used when English decided to adopt the word.))

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